The Melbourne Newsroom

Experts available for comment on the Federal budget.

Gareth Evans, a former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is now Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts as well as Chancellor of ANU, discusses the suitability of appointing Bob Carr as the new Foreign Affairs Minister and highlights a range of issues that the former NSW Premier will face.

Nick Sharman discusses the likely outcome of the New Hampshire Republican primary vote on ABC 24.  

Mr Sharman is an expert in the intersection of US politics and the media, and is based in the Media and Communications program at the University of Melbourne. 

Former Federal Liberal MP Petro Georgiou has been appointed Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University and the University of Melbourne in a joint appointment.

Below is a list of experts available to comment on the State and Federal budgets.

While voting has assumed centre stage now the Federal election has been called, electoral choice is ‘biased’ towards powerful and wealthy interests according to Dr Joo-Cheong Tham from the Melbourne Law School.

Women wanting to birth their children at home and midwives in private practice have gained some breathing space from Health Minister Nicola Roxon, but the issue of control over birth will still be there in two years time, says gender studies researcher at the University of Melbourne, Dr Meredith Nash.